Monday, August 13, 2012

Hey y'all!! Welcome to day one of our Inspiration Hops for this last release!

The Design Team for Gina K. Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop!!! Gina and the Design Team will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! And as you hop through their blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each of them because we will choose a few random comments and those stampers will each win a grab bag of deeply etched, pre-cut Gina K. Designs stamps! To see the full list of winners check the Big News forum at Stamp TV a couple of days after the hops!!

Up first is Melanie Muenchinger's newest set called Basket Additions 3. Ive been having alot of fun with this set! For my card today, I decided to use a template that Melanie has for a pop up desk and a teacher card:

For the front I used the cute teacher stuffs...this is my daughter's first year of teaching so Ive basically had alot of teacher stuff on my brain, lol! And now, here is the inside of the card:

I used the template of Melanie's to the little desk...here is the link to the template page at Melanie's site:

I love how this turned out! So did my daughter, she took it with her to share with the other kindergarten teacher, lol!

Ok, up next is Theresa Momber's Newest set called Country Roads...and yes, I have had the John Denver song in my head every since I started playing with this set, lol! Here is what I did for today:

I decided to use the old truck and mailboxes...I see alot of this around here, lol! I painted the truck red because hubby said to, I think he wants to paint his old ford red is why he said to do it, lol!

Ok, ready for more awesome inspiration from my fellow DT? Here are the links below:

Oh my goodness, how fabulous is your teacher card and what a wonderful way to start your daughter's teaching year! Love the country setting and the red truck looks perfect. Thanks so much for sharing your talent.

Wow super cute Cards for school the Desk is Awesome. love love the Card its so Awesome my Hubby would love this, the old car and the attention to detail is Amazing. thanks for sharing and for the chance to win.

OMG!!! Love that teacher card...My daughter is changing teaching jobs this year and will be the ESL teacher for the younger kids (K-3)..May have to send something like this to her!! Second card is lovely..like the red truck!!

Your daughter is so blessed to have your support. Kudos to you and to her. Our teachers deserve all the support we can give them. I love these cards, Cat. So creative! I admire you, your talent and the love you obviously have for your family. Blessings!

Oh, good grief -- I didn't know about that cute desk pop up, fabulous card, Cat! I love the "back 2 school" stamped on the chalk board -- so clever! And I didn't have John Denver in my head ... unt now, LOL! Love all the country details on your happy thoughts truck card!